If you are just testing the Google Chrome build and you don't need symbols, you can always comment out the -gstabs line in build/common.gypi.
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 9:10 PM, David Moore <davemo...@google.com> wrote: > Problem solved. Coincident with using the new linker I started building the > Google Chrome build. This uses breakpad, which turns on stabs, which makes > everything slower and bigger by a factor of 5. Only do the Chrome build if > you need to is the lesson. > Dave > > On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 8:39 PM, David Moore <davemo...@google.com> wrote: >> >> I checked and I compiled with -O2. I see a similar slowdown in the ar >> calls. I also notice that the size of the chrome executable is now 2GB. I >> think before the size was closer to 350MB. It was 750MB if you included >> webkit symbols. Perhaps something changed about the way we're managing >> symbols. >> Dave >> >> On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Antoine Labour <pi...@google.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 6:24 PM, David Moore <davemo...@google.com> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Since I did this upgrade my builds have gotten very very slow. A single >>>> file change, recompile and relink used to be about 35 seconds. Now it's 2 >>>> and a half minutes. As far as I can tell I'm using the right gold. >>>> >>>> davemo...@dmoorel:~/chrome/src$ ld --version >>>> GNU gold (GNU Binutils 2.20) 1.9 >>>> Are other people seeing this on linux? >>>> Dave >>> >>> Make sure you compile gold with -O2. That made a huge difference for me >>> when I was playing with it, and that wasn't the default for some reason. >>> Antoine >>>> >>>> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:47 AM, Lei Zhang <thes...@chromium.org> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi folks, >>>>> >>>>> We'll soon be relanding a patch that pass --gc-sections to the linker >>>>> on Linux. For this to work, you need either GNU ld or a recent version >>>>> of GNU gold. You can test and see if your copy of gold is new enough >>>>> by running: >>>>> >>>>> /path/to/gold --gc-sections >>>>> >>>>> If you see: "fatal error: no input files", _no action_ is required. >>>>> If you see: "--gc-sections: unknown option", then you _need to >>>>> upgrade_. >>>>> >>>>> If you installed gold through [1], please run it again. I've updated >>>>> the script at r32315 to install gold 2.20. I've also updated all the >>>>> Linux build / try bots to gold 2.20. >>>>> >>>>> [1] http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/src/build/install-build-deps.sh >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com >>>>> View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com >>>> View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev >> > > -- Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev
